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One Tiny Wasp Turns a Fig Tree Into a 150-Foot-High Eden
• arcleinThe origins of the feast go back 75 million years. That's when figs first evolved, probably in Eurasia, possibly in China-but certainly in conjunction with the tiny wasps that pollinate them. Since then, as figs have spread around the world and diversified into between 750 and 1,000 species, the wasps have diversified with them. Each